When I became an MP Cherie Blair said to me “Wait until you get a mention in the Post or Echo, nothing else is quite the same”,

She was right; it does give you a bit of a buzz. I have to say though, I am more excited when the Beds Tmes and Citizen, the Biggleswade Chronicle and the Beds on Sunday cover what I am doing in Parliament than with any National paper.

The Post and Echo journalist is good at his job. He has found out things about my great grandfather that even I didn’t know.